To be honest, Zhang Yuejing found Zhao Yucheng's idea quite shocking.
After all, if you think about it, fighting all the time requires a lot of wealth, strength and manpower. Can the Ming Dynasty bear this level of expenditure?
The amount of money, food and manpower required to continue fighting are unimaginable astronomical figures. Now just building a Yellow River can bring the Ming Dynasty into temporary stagnation, not to mention other large expenditures?
From an economic point of view, Zhang Yuejing is very unfavorable to Zhao Yucheng's idea.
But looking at it from another perspective, Zhang Yuejing had to admit that Zhao Yucheng's idea was indeed the only way that seemed feasible at the moment.
Because when everyone got together and just started to struggle, before arriving in Zhongdu to establish the Ming Kingdom, they were really single-minded.
Everyone is highly motivated and with a deep hatred for the superiors, they launch comprehensive reforms and liquidations in the occupied areas, carry out a thorough attack on the local superiors, liberate the people, and call on them to follow Su Yonglin to overthrow oppression and regain freedom. .
In those public trials, grievance meetings, and heart-pounding group meetings, Zhang Yuejing still remembered the sight of people looking up to the sky and roaring after breaking free from their shackles.
When did the problems begin?
If Zhang Yuejing saw it for himself, the problem should have occurred when Su Yonglin decided to temporarily join forces with some more enlightened superiors to stabilize the situation and quickly destroy the Jin Kingdom.
At that time, Zhang Yuejing did not support this method from the bottom of his heart, but he felt that it was the only feasible way at the time. Because he had too few people and too many enemies, there was really no better way.
But if you think about it carefully, didn't the corruption of the first batch of comrades begin at that time?
Su Yonglin had anticipated it in advance. .
Because of entanglements with superiors, the Yellow River case finally broke out. Major corruption cases involving several provinces detonated internal conflicts in the Ming Dynasty.
The outbreak of this corruption case finally prompted Su Yonglin to decide to break with the superiors in advance, completely eliminate the threat of the superiors, and wipe out the old bureaucrats and gentry in the Ming Dynasty.
Judging from the results, this indeed greatly purified the official administration of the Ming Dynasty, and also curbed the problems that occurred within the Renaissance Society.
But judging from the series of things happening right now, it may not be time to stop the purge within the revival meeting.
Zhang Yuejing believes that this is inseparable from the corruption legacy of the old bureaucrats and gentry who died on the members of the Renaissance Society. Although they died, some people who were corrupted by them secretly survived and continued to exist within the Renaissance Society. , not easy to find.
Su Yonglin may have also discovered that the previous strategy of coexisting with the superiors was not good and would do more harm than good, so he decided to break up early. However, the legacy was so great that Su Yonglin continued to carry out attacks on the Renaissance Society. During internal rectification, many people have to be dealt with each time.
So there is a kind of thinking in some of the current revival groups.
This kind of thinking believes that it was precisely because of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty and the pursuit of stability that they chose to compromise, and it was precisely because of compromise that led to the partial degeneration of the Renaissance Society. Although this behavior has been stopped now, the legacy of compromise continues, and the Renaissance Society Internal problems still exist and are difficult to deal with.
In order to establish the Ming Dynasty, for this stable foundation, we paid such a high price and paid for the degradation of so many comrades. Is all this necessary?
If we keep fighting and keep using fighting instead of compromise, will we be able to maintain everyone's high enthusiasm?
In June of the fifth year of Hongwu, Zhang Yuejing fell into deep thinking in Xiangyang City.
While he was thinking, he waited until the Privy Council conveyed the court's arrangements for the next stage of the war, and obtained the command of 40,000 reinforcements.
At the end of June of the fifth year of Hongwu, after a period of rest, the Ming army re-entered the best fighting condition, and then began to attack the Jinghu Southwest Road, Jinghu North Road, Jinghu South Road, and Jiangnan West Road in the Southern Song Dynasty, and defeated the Jinghu Theater in the Southern Song Dynasty.
The troops participating in the war were 70,000 from the Henan Corps, 5,000 from the Shenji Camp, 30,000 from the Yanyun Corps, and 10,000 from the Huben Guards. In addition to the 80,000 Peasant Army, the total strength was close to 200,000.
This is the largest military operation since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. The next one will probably be the military operation to destroy the Song Dynasty.
Zhang Yuejing made very appropriate arrangements.
He ordered the 30,000 troops of the Henan Corps, the 10,000 troops of the Huben Guards, and the 5,000 troops of the Shenji Battalion to be merged into a mobile combat army. With the strongest combat power, he went to the Guizhou area to compete with the Southern Song Dynasty. The strongest Sichuan and Sichuan armies started a duel and destroyed this Sichuan and Sichuan army.
Next, the entire South Beijing Road was handed over to the Henan Corps to defeat the 30,000 enemy troops and the 10,000 cavalry units directly under the Corps, for a total of 40,000 people to conquer.
The Yanyun Corps' Tabai Army's 30,000 men and the Peasant Army's Second Division Xu Tong's 20,000 men, a total of 50,000 men, were responsible for going south to attack Jinghu South Road.
A total of 40,000 people from the First Division and the Fourth Division of the Peasant Army, led by Zhao Yucheng, were responsible for launching a war of attack on Jinghu North Road.
Lu Chengren's troops of the Third Division of the Peasant Army who stayed on Jiangnan West Road consolidated the existing results and guarded against the death-struggle-style battle that the Southern Song Dynasty court might launch - of course, this possibility was infinitely close to zero.
Under the current situation, the Ming army has actually entered a state of tens of thousands of troops. There are no organized troops in the four central areas of the Southern Song Dynasty that can threaten the Ming army's attack. Even if they defend the city, they can hardly hold on. A city lasting more than three days.
It is actually a matter of time before these four roads are completely occupied.
Zhang Yuejing, on the other hand, focused on the only field elite in the Southern Song Dynasty that was still mobile. He personally led the mobile combat army to the Guizhou area to take over the previous results of the peasant army. He was ready to fight the Sichuan and Shu armies of the Southern Song Dynasty in a bloody battle. One scene, completely destroying it.
This reinforcement of the Sichuan-Shu army in the Southern Song Dynasty was led by Yao Zhong. Yao Zhong was ordered by the emperor to move troops into Sichuan, hoping to get Wu Lin's cooperation. Wu Lin hesitated for a long time, but still did not disobey the emperor's order and rectified the situation together with the Sichuan Xuanfu envoy. He handed over 30,000 troops to Yao Zhong.
This is the last mobile field army that can be produced in the Sichuan-Sichuan region.
Wu Lin clearly told Yao Zhong that he could no longer send more troops. Under the current situation, he had to ensure that the northern Sichuan defense line had enough troops to prevent the Guanzhong Ming army from going south. He was worried that Xiangfan would not be protected, and Wu Lin But Lin wanted to guard against the 100,000 Ming troops in Guanzhong.
"Xiangfan is certainly important, but once Sichuan and Shu are lost, the Ming army will be like Wang Jun who wanted to destroy Soochow. When the building boat sailed to Yizhou, the Song Dynasty will be really in danger. I dare not let the Jin Kingdom do this kind of thing If you succeed, I don’t dare to let Ming Guo succeed. These 30,000 troops are really the limit. I hope you will bring them back as soon as possible.”
Everything Wu Lin said was sincere, and Yao Zhong was also worried when he said it.
"Of course I understand the problem, but no matter what, Xiangfan must be saved. We also have 40,000 troops in Xiangfan. If we don't save it, isn't it equivalent to breaking our arms?"
Wu Lin sighed.
"I did not expect that the national destiny would be so difficult. No matter how difficult the situation was in the past, it would not be so difficult that the Sichuan and Sichuan armies would come out to fight in Sichuan..."
"The Ming army is not only strong in combat power, but also in large numbers. The Ming Dynasty's finances seem to be very abundant. As far as we know so far, the Ming Dynasty army has as many as six corps."
Yao Zhong clapped his fingers and said bitterly: "There are six corps in Yanyun, Hebei, Qilu, Hexi, Liaodong, and Henan. Each corps has a full strength of 100,000 people. This is a full 600,000 troops. There are 600,000 soldiers and horses in the whole Ming Dynasty. How many people are there? With such a large number of soldiers and horses, how can one person be so ruthless as to be militaristic? Not only did it suffer the people of the Central Plains, but in the end, it also embarrassed the Song Dynasty."
